Labour .... Law ....Reforms in India .. for the 21st Century Recently the state governments of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have announced that they will be intermittently suspending most of the labour laws which were enacted in 1946 to stimulate the growth of manufacturing. This proposal is still waiting with the union government's approval as these laws are in the concurrent list, between the state and centre. Let us examine the journey of the labour laws and the growth over the years from a common man perspective, The Journey : So what do these laws mean for the employer, employee and India's manufacturing capabilities? Were they hurdles? In this post we are going to examine only the essence of labour laws and not land laws which will be a separate subject. For an employer, it was cited by many that for a capital intensive business such as the manufacturing, these laws enacted that, for a firm with a size of more than 10 employees, even during